Happy Halloween!

First I am Innocent Child, and then Devil Child: "Noooooo! Don't take my picture!!!"

Shoes!

I love shoes! I may have inherited this trait from my mom. My dad has only three pairs of shoes. I have about eight. My mom has a lot more. She's a little bit afraid to say how many more. I now like to pick out which shoes I wear everyday. Most of the time it's the newest pair. Today I got a new pair of pink shoes and I wore them all day long, even for my nap. I refused to let my mom take them off. When we went on a walk, I kept lifting my legs up while sitting in the stroller so I could admire my new shoes.

Hop, Hop, Hop!

The Chinese word for "rabbit" is "tuzi", and when we're reading my animal books, my parents say "Tuzi! Hop, hop hop!" I also like to pull up my shirt and put my finger in my belly button, and my parents say the Chinese word for "belly", which is "duzi". But I have trouble hearing the difference between "tuzi" and "duzi", so now I like to pull up my shirt, put my finger in my belly button, and say "Hop, hop, hop!"

My Hospital Stay

I just got back from the hospital last night! After a couple of days of upset stomach I got a high fever, so my parents took me to the hospital just to see the doctor, and they said I had salmonella poisoning and was going to have to stay in the hospital for three days! I didn't like it very much, and being sick wasn't even the worst part! My IV line kept me from running around like I love to do, and the hospital didn't even have a play area for me. Even worse, I couldn't eat or drink anything for two days. At one point I got really mad and threw the biggest temper tantrum I have ever had. Now I am almost better, but I have to catch up on all the eating and sleeping that I didn't get to do in the hospital!

Goodnight Rice!

My bedtime book, "Goodnight Moon", has a line that says "Goodnight mush", and it shows a picture of a bowl of mush. But I think it looks like a bowl of rice! So whenever we get to that line, I now say "rice!" ("fice!"). So my dad has started to just say "Goodnight rice" instead, even though it doesn't rhyme with "Goodnight brush".

Learning Chinese

I am already speaking a lot of Chinese words. My favorite word right now is "xia yu", which means rain. I learned this word recently when there was a typhoon (my first) and it rained for four days straight. It was hard for me to stay inside all day when it rained and I kept pointing at the door saying "out" or "Crocs" for my shoes. I now also can say "Niao niao" for potty whereas I used to say "Potty".

The other day we went furniture shopping. I thought I was in heaven because I got to climb up and down all the chairs then climb up and down all the beds. When I got up onto a bed, I would put my index finger to my lips and say "Shhh" then pretend to go to sleep. All the people around me burst out laughing.

My First Typhoon!

Typhoon Krosa just hit Taiwan and has been pretty exciting for me. This is my first time experiencing typhoons. Yesterday, we walked from the subway station to our apartment building and got really wet even though we had umbrellas. I now can say "raining" in Chinese very well because it has rained nonstop for 3 days now. This afternoon, the power went out so we were without air conditioning for about 2 hours. I played with a little radio/flashlight instead, tuning the radio to different stations and dancing to the Taiwanese music. I hope the rain stops soon because it has been a little boring to be stuck in the house all day long.

My First Haircut

It was our first morning in Taiwan and what do my parents do? They go get haircuts! There is a trendy salon on the first floor of the apartment complex where my grandmother lives. They all remembered us from our visit eight months ago. I waited patiently for so long while the nice lady cut my mom's hair that I fell asleep. My mom decided that it was a good time for me to get a haircut so they gave me a fringe in my sleep! Now I look like a little toddler. I am no longer Baby Anja, but Toddler Anja!